Clothespin



A. ROEHH.

CLOTHESPIN.

APPLICATION man APR. I2. 1919.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

INVENTOR: 6Q/JZVZ-.

. ATTO NEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT 7 OFFICE.

ADA ROEHR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTHESPIN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ana Roman, a citizen of the United States, residingin the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Clothespins, of which thefollowing is a description.

This invention has reference to clothes pins, and, particularly, tomeanswhereby said pins may be slidably and detachably hung to the line andthe'pins may be detached at will.

Among the objects of my invention may be noted the following: to providea comhination of means by which a clothes pin can be detachably andslidably hung upon a line and be given substantially universal movementre atively thereto; to provide means by which a clothes pin may besuspended from the line, and which means may be readil attached to, andhung from, the line, and a so detachably hold the pin; to provide meansby which, when the clothes pin becomes split or broken, substitutionsmay be made readily and chea ly, without removing the holding means Fromthe line; to provide means whereby clothes and other articles may bequickly secured to a line through the medium of pins which are always onthe line and readily manipulated, so as to be applied quickly andquickly removed without the loss of the pins or removing them from theline; and to rovide a simple, cheap, compact and e cacious means bywhich articles of various kinds may be hung upon, and held in place on,a line and the holding means may be shifted to any position on the linefor cooperation with the article.

With the foregoing objects in view and others which will be detailedduring the course of this description, my invention consists in theparts, features, elements and combinations thereof hereinafter describedand claimed.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, 1 have provideddrawings wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation showing a portion of a clothes-line with onepin in functional position and another pendent;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the pendent pin of Fig. 1, the line beingin section;

3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a di erent form of attachingmeans;

Fig. 4 is a top plan of the attaching means Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920. 1919. Serial No. 289,680.

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Fig. 5 1's a detail showing a mode of use. Referring to the drawings,the numeral 1 indicates a clothes-line which may be of wire, rope orother suitable material, suspended at its opposite ends upon posts,hooks, holders or other media, as may be ilesired, according to thelocation of the me. I

The numeral 2 indicates a wooden clothes pm, which may be of commontype, through winch an aperture has been drilled or made for thereception of the inturned ends 3 of a resilient holding medium, having apair of side arms 4 and its upper end provided with a stiffened shank 5and open eye 6. Preferably, the holding medium is made of a single pieceof spring or resilient wire, bent to provide the inturned ends 3, provlding trunnions or bearings for the clothes pin and twisted to providethe shank and produce the terminal eye. The arms 4 are resilient and maybe sprung apart. The ring 7, or suspending member, is also made ofresilient or spring wire, and has its cooperating ends 8, which may beseparated, so shouldered as to provide a flush closure.

his is to prevent the clothes being snagged or torn in applying them tothe line, or in sliding the pins along the latter. The ring 7 isinserted in the eye of the holding medium by separating its endslaterally, and in like manner is ap lied to the line. The suspendingmedium may be in the form of a ring, as shown in Figs. 3 and 1,at theright of the latter,or may be made as shown in Fig. 2 and at the left ofFig. 1. In the latter form, it is produced from a piece of resilientwire, its ends having flush cooperation, as shown in Fig. 4, and itsbody twisted to stiffen the same, as at 9, and form an eye 10 forcooperation with eye 6 of the holder.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the entire devicemay be quickly applied to, and removed froin, the line without detachingthe several parts of the device. The holdin medium, in the form of Fig.3, may also Ee detached from the suspending means without removin thelatter from the line; and the pin may e detached from the holding mediumwithout removing either the latter or the suspendin means from the line.Thus, if a pin ecomes broken, another may be quickly substituted,

and, if the holding medium becomes bent, broken or distorted in any way,so as to render it. unservieeable, which is a remote possibility, it canbe removed from the suspending means without removing the latter fromthe line and another substituted there for, without wastage of eitherthe suspend in means or the )in.

y referring to i ig. 1, it will be seen that, according to my invention,the entire device may have practically a universal movement on, andrelatively to, the line; that the pin can be very uickly and'readilymanipulated for its functional purposes, and also for detaching-theclothes from the line; that, when the line is taken down, the pins neednot be removed, thus preventing them from becoming lost, injured orsoiled, and the latter objectionable features are also avoided by reasonof the fact that the pins are always suspended on the line and neednever be removed therefrom; that the pins can be applied to articlessuspended on the line either to the right or left of the position wherethe pin may be hanging, and, in consequence, little or no space on theline is wasted, since the articles may be hun r very closely togetherand will be separate( only by, for example, two rings or suspendingmeans, in the event it is desired to hang two articles close together;and a pin may be employed as a means for preventing the remainder of thepins from being slid out upon, or accidentally shifted on, the line,when there are no articles suspendedthereon, and

when it is desired to put the pins under cover during non-use, thisfeature being shown in Fig. 5, wherein the line 1 is shown running on apulley ll, properly supported at 12. The pins 2 are shown grouped on onepart of the line and held from slidin along the latter by another pin 13applied to the line, said pin acting as a keeper for the others. a

It should be further noted that all the parts are simple, are veryquickly and cheaply made; the pins are wooden, and, therefore, cheap,and that the wire from which the holding and suspending means inproduced should be non-rustible, resilient and strong, and can be veryeconomically produced. Also that the entire device is a labor and timesaver, since it avoids the separate handling of pins from ground or boxto line, thus facilitating the work of hanging out articles to dry, andthat the clothes and other articles will be firmly held on the line,since, when the pins are pressed down to clamp the articles, the holdingmeans and suspending meansform an angle relatively to the line whichplaces some little tension thereon in an angular direction to itslength, thus preventing the pins from being shifted under the influenceof the flop ping of the articles on the line in a strong wind.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. In combination with a clothes pin provided with opposite boresali'ording journal bearings, a holder formed ota single piece of wirebent to provide a pair of arched arms adapted to receive the pin abovesaid bearings, and also to provide a pair of normally inturned journalpins adapted to enter said bearings, said holder also having a twistedportion above said arched portion making a stiff body member terminatingin an eye, and means cooperating with said eye for detachably securingthe holder to a line.

2.7In combination, a holder consisting of a single piece of wire bent toprovide a pair of oppositely arched arms, a stiff shank at one terminalof the arms, a securing eye at the terminal of the shank, and a pair ofnormally inturned journals at the free ends of said arms, in combinationwith a-cl0thes pin having opposite bores for mounting upon the journalsso as to swing between the arms of the holder, the eye of the holderaffording means for securing the same to a line.

ADA Roman.

